John Sulston

John Sulston (27 March 1942-6 March 2018) was a British biologist and academic who, along with Sydney Brenner and H. Robert Horvitz, won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cell lineage and genome of the C. elegans worm.

Biography
John Sulston was was born in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, England in 1942, the son of an Anglican priest; he later became an atheist. During the 1960s, he met Sydney Brenner and Francis Crick, and Sulston, Brenner, and H. Robert Horvitz studied cell lineage and genomes in the C. elegans hermaphrodite worms. From 1993 to 2000, he served as director of the Sanger Institute. In 2002, the three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Sulston died in 2018 at the age of 75.